Longtime Patriots assistant coach Dante Scarnecchia will be inducted into the franchise’s Hall of Fame this year.
Scarnecchia was the Patriots’ special teams and tight ends coach from 1982 to 1988 and then returned to fill the same roles in 1991. He would hold a variety of titles before becoming their offensive line coach in 1999. Scarnecchia held that role through 2013 and assumed an assistant head coach title along the way. He left the team for a couple of years before coming back for four more years as the offensive line coach.
“Dante Scarnecchia is recognized as one of the greatest assistant coaches of all time,” Patriots owner Robert Kraft said in a statement.